International Women's Day - reversal of gender in images

Warning! This post is going to be more sexual than normal. This being International Women's Day though, I thought it'd be fun to post a pic from a blog I came across the other day. The blog is malesubmissionart.com, and features men in generally artistic (NSFW) submissive poses. The reason I think this is fitting for International Women's Day? We're so used to seeing these images with women in them that we'd not even glance twice.

As you look at these pics I've chosen, picture a woman with the same expressions and body posturing. We've seen it in Abercrombie & Fitch, Levis, Axe commercials, tequila commercials, that Charlize Theron movie... everywhere. We see it at Urban Outfitters and the halls of high schools. It's just that they're girls. Why is it so strange for us to see women in traditionally male genderized roles of control and gratification, and so shocking to see men in positions of vulnerability, comfort, or aroused fear?

We can do better to honor our women by realizing how ingrained our expectations of gender are.